Richly Blessed

My life is richly blessed. 

Thank you to Sarah, Katie, Kelsie and James, Amanda and Jake, Mark and Lisa, Brooklin and Brett, Allison, Rachel and the many more who have invited me into their homes, left dinner in my fridge, fed and played with Mitch and Winter, listened to me, inviting me to activites, and for never letting me feel that I am alone. I have rarely felt so loved by so many. 

I love my ward family. I have never attended a ward where the lessons are discussions, not lectures, where people feel safe to ask personal questions and for help to understand doctrine. Where the Spirit of God is readily present in all meetings and I leave every Sunday feeling uplifted and filled. 

I am grateful for a husband that refuses to give up. 

I have had only wonderful rotation mates. No matter the rotation, the work load, the excitement, or mundane there has also been someone who reaches out and helps carry the load. 

I am grateful to have flying privileges that allowed me to fly down to Utah and back in the same day to surprise my sister for her bridal shower and to able to be a part of her final fitting of her wedding gown. The look on her face was worth the early morning and late night. 

I am thankful for the chance to work with incredible people who love their job as veterinarians and technicians and are willing to teach and share. I am grateful to be apart of an amazing profession that allows me to do what I've always wanted to do. I spent 12 hours a few weeks ago delivering puppies for the first time. To help bring life into the world is a feeling of wonder that never ceases to inspire me. 

I am grateful for Heavenly Father who has given me all of these things and by so doing shows me how much He loves me and is aware of me.  I am grateful for my testimony that God lives, He is our Father, Jesus Christ lives and completed the Atonement so that I may live with Them again. 

In church today, one of my favorite quotes was shared - 

“No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God." - Elder Orson F. Whitney 

I was reminded that my life, though difficult at times and is not altogether going how I had hoped, is still very good and very very blessed.